Counter

The Counter tool provides the user with a tap-able counter for counting items or events within a form. Each tap steps the counter either up or down in set increments. For example, the image below shows a counter that records the number of attendees at an event:

You may configure your counter in the following ways:

Specify the range of numbers (minimum and maximum) accepted by the counter.

Set your counter to step up or down in incremements of 1, 2, 3, 10, 100, or any other whole number.

Note that your form can include multiple counters, with different step intervals, inside a layout grid to create customized counter controls.

Properties

Caption text: The caption is used in most cases to ask the question. In others it may be a column heading. This is a required field. Please keep in mind that captions will wrap when form elements do not fit within the width of the screen. It is important to consider how your captions will be displayed. Captions on a larger screen might look perfect, but on a smaller device, they may be forced to wrap several times. In this situation, a smaller caption should be used.

Hint: Provides additional information to the mobile form user on how a question (i.e., Caption text) should be answered. The Hint font size is smaller than the Caption font size.

Data name: Because this is a required field, doForms will default the Data name to match the Caption or Label. If these are blank, doForms will generate a generic Data name name with a sequential number (such as "untitled10"). Since it is used throughout the system, it is recommended that you enter a descriptive Data name that is easily identifiable. Nondescript Data names are difficult to find and select at a later time (e.g., when performing a calculation).

Default value: This is what your counter will initially display when a user opens the form. Leave blank to have no value initially appear.

Step: Sets the value that the counter steps up or down when tapped (can be negative or positive whole number).

Range: Sets the minimum and maximum values for the counter (can be negative or positive whole numbers).

Custom Error Message: Allows the user to customize an error message that will appear when the mobile users tried to enter a number outside of the specified range.

Cannot Exceed Minimum/Maximum: Blocks the mobile user from being able to use the up and down arrows to go lower than the minimum number of higher than the maximum number.

Appearance: doForms allows you to set a default set of appearance parameters. This eliminates the need for you to have to set colors and other parameters each time you add an element to your form. You can however override the default settings for any tool by simply picking the Custom option. You can also edit the default by clicking on the edit defaults option.

Justification: Allows you to apply text justification settings to certain elements of the tool. Choose the appropriate radio button for the Caption, Hint, and/or Answer fields as follows:

L: Left-justifies the text.

C: Center-justifies the text.

R: Right-justifies the text.

Remove Space: When selected the space Above or Below the tool is Removed. When styling the form this help provide continuity with the layout.

Read only: These settings allow you to control which users can enter data into or edit this field. The settings are as follows:

View data edit: Restricts a web portal user from editing this field when editing a submitted form through the 'View data' tab

View data new: Restricts a web portal user from entering data into this field when creating a new form through the 'View data' tab.

Dispatch edit: Restricts a web portal user from editing this field when editing a submitted form through the 'Dispatch' tab.

Dispatch new: Restricts a web portal user from entering data into this field when creating a new dispatch through the 'Dispatch' tab.

Mobile: Restricts a mobile user from entering data into this field when creating a form.

Web App: Restricts a web app user from entering data into this field when creating a form.

Form Links: Restricts a web portal user from editing this field when editing a form that was sent using a form link

Required: These settings allow you to control which users are required to enter data into this field. The settings are as follows:

View data edit: Requires a web portal user to enter data into this field if editing and saving a submitted form through the 'View data' tab

View data new: Requires a web portal user to enter data into this field when creating a new form through the 'View data' tab.

Dispatch edit: Requires a web portal user to enter data into this field if editing and saving a submitted form through the 'Dispatch' tab.

Dispatch new: Requires a web portal user to enter data into this field when creating a new dispatch through the 'Dispatch' tab.

Mobile: Requires a mobile user to enter data into this field when creating a form.

Web App: Requires a web app user to enter data into this field when creating a form.

Form Links: Restricts a user from submitting a form link without answering this this field.

Hide: These settings allow you to hide the form field from users in specific situations. The settings are as follows:

View data edit: Hides this field from a web portal user when editing a submitted form through the 'View data' tab

View data new: Hides this field from a web portal user when creating a new form through the 'View data' tab.

Dispatch edit: Hides this field from a web portal user when editing a submitted form through the 'Dispatch' tab.

Dispatch new: Hides this field from a web portal user when creating a new dispatch through the 'Dispatch' tab.

Mobile: Hides this field from a mobile user when creating a form.

Web App: Hides this field from a web app user when creating a form.

In PDF and Print: Hides this field when the form is converted to PDF or printed.

Form Links: Hides this field on forms that are sent as form links.

Actions

Only display this question if

This is a very powerful option as it allows you to hide form elements, only exposing them if the answer to a question in your form meets the criteria you have set. Being able to hide fields unless they are needed makes form more user friendly. For example, if you have a Choose One question with the answers Yes and No, then you can say "Only display this form element if" the answer to the Choose One is "equal" to "Yes." You can combine criteria with other criteria, thus creating complex criteria for showing/hiding form elements.

Jump to

This option allows you to navigate the user to a specific location in the form based on how they answer the current question.